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1356 is the fourth novel in The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2012. It is set in 1356, nearly a decade after the original trilogy, and culminates with the Battle of Poitiers. Intertwined in the plot is the quest to find la Malice, a fabled sword of Saint Peter and Christian relic which may turn the tide of the long ...
The Bastard is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. [ 1 ] The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up ...
Cornwell's best known books feature the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The first 11 books of the Sharpe series (beginning in chronological order with Sharpe's Rifles and ending with Sharpe's Waterloo, published in the US as Waterloo) detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course of 6–7 years.
The Bastard of Vaurus, defended the French town in the siege of Meaux in 1422; Corneille, bastard of Burgundy (1420–1452), illegitimate son of Philip the Good; Geoffrey, the Bastard, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (c. 1152–1212), illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England; Harry the Bastard, from the British 1990s television series Bottom
This is a list of fictional stories in which illegitimacy features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this article. Many of these stories explore the social pain and exclusion felt by illegitimate "natural children". Illegitimacy was a common theme in Victorian literature. "Illegitimacy was a popular subject for ...
The Bastard, a 1929 novel by Erskine Caldwell; Bastard!!, a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara (since 1988) The Bastard, a 1974 novel by John Jakes "Bâtard" ("Bastard" or "Mongrel"), a 1902 short story by Jack London
Berg is a major figure in science writer Sam Kean's historical book The Bastard Brigade. [64] In 2017, during the first season of the biographical series Genius, which tells the story of Albert Einstein, Berg is seen in the ninth episode, played by Adam Garcia. The biographical film The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) was based on Nicholas Dawidoff's ...
Nigel Tranter, The Stewart Trilogy, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent : Coronet Books, 1986. ISBN 0-340-39115-4. Lords of Misrule, 1388-1396. A Folly of Princes, 1396-1402. The Captive Crown, 1402-1411. Attribution This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Douglas".